hardwood flooring is HARD

We spent all day today putting in the flooring and chasing a toddler and tending to a baby...its TOUGH. but so rewarding when the room is finished.
We learned a big lesson doing our floors, to take out ALL the pieces and sort according to color, dont start a pattern if you are not certain you can finish it. let just say if we intend to sell this house there better be furniture in the rooms or the floors will look a little silly.

Todays Progress

All the walls are painted, the house has been mostly de-golded...who puts gold plated outlet and light covers up??? not me.

We got the bamboo hardwood flooring 3/4 of the way done in the dining room, here are some new pictures

House Projects

Here is an update on the house projects going on

View from kitchen -BEFORE

babes in richmond

With these two faces looking at you all day would you really be trying to get a job?? If only this was how they looked all the time...this is more like what audrey looks like most of the day...its an old picture but you get the idea :)

20 weeks

 Ethan is twenty weeks old!! he is growing much faster than I think Audrey did. Here is me trying to get a 20 week sibling picture, Audrey has been less than accommodating the last few days, I think the move is finally getting to her and she is acting out.

At Ethan's last appointment he is weighed in the 25% and his height was in the 75%, totally different from what Audrey was, I think was 50% all the way. He is long and lean. Hopefully he can stay that way.

Ethan tried rice cereal recently too, this is the usual face after I feed it to him, it does taste pretty gross, but hopefully he will get used to it and start eating it. I forgot how hard it was to get babies to eat.

Virginia is for Lovers!

Lots of things I love so far in Virginia

1. You can buy beer and wine in almost any store and it doesn't have to be a case.
2. The weather is pretty nice, I keep hearing about frost and snow in the north
3.

i started this post back on may 12th...i'm guessing there isnt too much more i am excited about then the beer and wine :) ha ha

no but really here are some more things


3. we get lots of yankees and red sox games on tv cause they play baltimore alot
4. milk is condsiderably cheaper - important with a child who guzzles it
5. most things are cheaper...ie daycare, dog kenneling, food, gas
6. we currently homeless, ie no mortgage so i dont have too much stress in finding a new job-which i havent yet
7. there was yummy festivals like the greek festival that we went to today that totally reminded me of syracuse.
8. there is no worrying about the best way to avoid traffic when going into the city
9. we have friends already! we went out to eat at a sushi restaurant/bar with friends ryan has met through work and i have visited a college friend already. cool :)
10. learning a new place is always fun!